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Friday, August 28, 2015

John F. Kennedy was the 35th President of the United States. He was the second-youngest President and was assassinated on November 22, 1963 in Dallas Texas.

John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials JFK,was the thirty-fifth President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.

John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the USA is your 10th cousin thrice removed.
You
→ Mom
your mother → EULA V HANCOCK
her mother → William M. Akers
her father → Lee A. Akers
his father → ACY AKERS
his father → James A AKERS
his father → Jonathan Elswick Akers
his father → Blackburn Akers, Sr., Revolutionary Soldier
his father → Susannah Blackburn Akiers
his mother → Elizabeth Blackburn
her mother → Lambeth Tye
her father → Joyce Coggin
his mother → Gregory Bland
her father → John Bland the Grocer
his brother → Theodorick Bland of Westover
his son → Richard Bland of Jordan's Point
his son → Anna Munford
his daughter → Elizabeth Irby
her daughter → Edmund Fitzgerald
her son → Michael Fitzgerald
his son → Thomas Fitzgerald
his son → John Francis Fitzgerald, Sr.
his son → Rose Elizabeth Kennedy
his daughter → John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the USA
her son

Friday, August 14, 2015

SO my DNA results came in and Ancestry evaluated my DNA for ethnicity and my DNA was found to be 100 percent European there....
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Friday, August 07, 2015

So I was searching the family tree and along the way I found a few nuts...

The oldest of which was the mother of Osiris, of course. She was the daughter of Tefnut and Shu who married her brother, Geb. Shu married his sister Tofnut as well, and their grandchildren, Osiris and Isis married each other too. I mean, at the time there weren't a lot of kids their age around, you know...

I also ran across Berdor Kolbeinsson Bolt, who was the son of Kolbein, and the father of Sigurd Berdorson Bolt, and the grandfather of Gunnar Sigurdson. Berdor was born about 1300ish. Berdor was also the father of Kolbein Berdorsson Bolt, i Thorlaksgaard, and his half-brother, Sigurd Kolbeinsson Bolt, på Løken. If you're thinking this sounds a lot like a Norse myth, I agree.

John Herschel Glenn, Jr. (born July 18, 1921) is a former United States Marine Corps pilot, astronaut, and United States senator who was the first American to orbit the Earth and the third American in space. Glenn was a Marine Corps fighter pilot before joining NASA's Mercury program as a member of NASA's original astronaut group. He orbited the Earth in Friendship 7 in 1962. After retiring from NASA, he entered politics as a Democrat and represented Ohio in the United States Senate from 1974 to 1999.

Glenn received a Congressional Space Medal of Honor in 1978. He was inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame in 1990. On October 29, 1998, he became the oldest person to fly in space, and the only one to fly in both the Mercury and Space Shuttle programs, when at age 77, he flew on Discovery (STS-95). As of 2010, Glenn and M. Scott Carpenter are the last living members of the Mercury Seven.

Tuesday, August 04, 2015

While tracing the lines of the family tree, I found several interesting people that I did not know existed before, like for example, the poet, Sir Thomas Browne, my 9th great grandfather, and my 10th great uncle, Sir John Suckling, the poet, and the alchemist, Sir George Ripley, my 15th great grandfather.

A picture is worth a thousand words and here is a link to over 3000 genealogy blogs and some great advice for geneabloggers like me. Yes GTFT is now officially a part of the Geneabloggers network.
Until next time, keep your feet on the ground and keep climbing the family tree...